QUOTE button should be removed!

Here is another flaw I found on ATS completely useless. There are several others - homepage is actually outdated for several reasons, but that's not
the point.
Why ATS members uses this button, when they can just push reply? Many of them do it only to make a thread huge and impossible to read. It's actually
a big deal, when someone quote "for fun" just to make us swap for several pages instead of reading what we want.
I am only trying to help, course that's what I do every single day and I feel it is important.
My suggestion is - give a number to every answer!

Let's say:
" I completely agree with #5 point of view but #11 has a better understanding of this."
It's much more easier to find.
At the same time I already sold two problems.
Can go much deeper, but let's see how this goes.

Watchers and observers of threads like the quote button. I read very many threads, hardly reply to any. I really like when posters use the quote
button. Plus using mobile phone to access ats if I have to re-load another page just to see were a comment is relevant. It just takes to long.

You also see a few un edited posts as someone quoted before an edit, most of the time not relevant. But I've seen a few that were good catches.

The abuse of the Quote button is a genuine nuisance, often perpetrated by comparative newcomers who haven't learned the difference.
Yet it's also a great convenience to the user; I thnk the working of the "numbers" suggestion would be rather clumsy.
I've often used the Quote button just to have in front of me the points that I'm responding to, as a reminder; I then delete the other poster's
text when i've completed my own reply.

One possible answer (though it would also prevent the trick I've just mentioned) would be to limit the Quote capability to a couple of lines.
Instead of being given the whole of the other poster's text. you would be given the chance to select lines by moving a highlight up and down, and
clicking.
That would stop the massive quotations, and keep the real function.

Originally posted by DISRAELI
The abuse of the Quote button is a genuine nuisance, often perpetrated by comparative newcomers who haven't learned the difference.
Yet it's also a great convenience to the user; I thnk the working of the "numbers" suggestion would be rather clumsy.
I've often used the Quote button just to have in front of me the points that I'm responding to, as a reminder; I then delete the other poster's
text when i've completed my own reply.

One possible answer (though it would also prevent the trick I've just mentioned) would be to limit the Quote capability to a couple of lines.
Instead of being given the whole of the other poster's text. you would be given the chance to select lines by moving a highlight up and down, and
clicking.
That would stop the massive quotations, and keep the real function.

It's not actually clumsy as you say, but it's rather, you can push the number, so you don't even need quote.
I have already did my work hp with this, it's kind of easy to implement it.

Originally posted by DISRAELI
The abuse of the Quote button is a genuine nuisance, often perpetrated by comparative newcomers who haven't learned the difference.
Yet it's also a great convenience to the user; I thnk the working of the "numbers" suggestion would be rather clumsy.
I've often used the Quote button just to have in front of me the points that I'm responding to, as a reminder; I then delete the other poster's text
when i've completed my own reply.

One possible answer (though it would also prevent the trick I've just mentioned) would be to limit the Quote capability to a couple of lines.
Instead of being given the whole of the other poster's text. you would be given the chance to select lines by moving a highlight up and down, and
clicking.
That would stop the massive quotations, and keep the real function.

It's not actually clumsy as you say, but it's rather, you can push the number, so you don't even need quote.

sounds like youre coming from one of the chans and no need to be ashamed of that many of us have at one time or another but comfort and function are
two things that are more often than not entirely unrelated

I'm just trying a new approach. ATS site looks kind of dull and outdated.
I am reading on something that I would like to talk about here on ATS.

Namaste.

edit on 17-3-2013 by Izak4K because: (no reason given)

Lol ok, but I like the quotes. To me it makes threads flow instead of back tracking. I like ats as it is really, maybe I'm outdated

or dull

Not at all, I thought all of your replys were relevant, and nothing you said was dull.

I postulate the op has a problem where he cant see he has already read the quoted material, so he gets stuck reading every line of every post, quotes
and all, so it takes him a long time to read and reply.

I suggest, just looking at the quoted material, and making sure you have already read and stored it away in your noggin, then just go to the new post
and read it, as the quote is meant for reference, or to highlight somthing said in a previous post.

In short op, I think it is absolutely necessary, and couldnt imagine having to copy paste every time I thought I might need to give reference to
somthing in my reply.

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